While Asus has already made its dual-core, ION-powered netbook – the 1201N, Laptopmag already had a hands-on report of the Eee PC 1201N. The Eee PC 1201N boasts of Windows 7 Premium, 12-inch display, 1.3-inch thick, 3.2 pounds, chicklet-style keyboard and a dimpled trackpad.

The Eee PC 1201N also has HDMI port so you can attach it to high-def monitor or TV.  Laptopmag was able to try out this feature by attaching the 1201N to a high-def monitor/TV and was please with the full screen HD output when watching Hulu and YouTube.

In addition to all the features we mentioned, the Eee PC 1201N also boasts of a dual core Intel Atom N330 CPU. It also packs in 2GB of RAM and 250GB HDD.

The 1201N will sell for $499 and will be available in the US soon.

Check out Laptopmags full video hands-on here.

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Eee PC 1201N Hands-On Report

Isn’t it interesting that Asus who was supposed to have carved the netbook market niche is now playing second fiddle to Acer who was rather a little late in entering the market? What does it say? Does it mean that Acer netbooks are better than the Eee PCs? Or cheaper perhaps?

Other stats from other netbook companies include – Samsung with 12%, HP with 11.6%, Toshiba with 4.2% and Dell with only 3.5%.

The report also said that there were around 3.7m netbooks shipped in the EMEA regional along for Q3. This is 68.9% more than what was ship a year ago. This only goes to show that netbooks are still getting their share of the PC market industry.

via Register Hardware

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Europeans Love Acer Netbooks More than the Eee PCs

It could very well be used as a multimedia box that you can place anywhere in your house without occupying too much space due to its small form factor.

The Eee Box EB1501 also features Windows 7 Home Premium, a remote control and two keyboards / wireless mouse. It’s will start hitting store shelves in Italy anytime now. No words yet on its U.S. release.

Here’s the video:

via EeePC.it

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EeeBox EB1501 Nettop Shows Up

So, have you pre-ordered your Eee PC T91MT at Amazon? Whether you did or not, you might want to check out this short demo of the Eee PC T91MT’s multi-touch functionality. As you can see from the video, that multi-touch feature is definitely a winner. Nothing can be cooler than the ability to control the different apps loaded in the Eee PT T91MT using one or two fingers.

I’m drooling right now, and hoping that this table netbook will be made available in the country where I am at a very affordable price.  But I’m not counting on it, given the taxes that our government will imposed once it reached our soil.

Anyway, enjoy the video and if you haven’t ordered your Eee PC T91MT yet, this might  help you decide.

via Notebook Italia

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Video of Eee PC T91MT Showing Multi-Touch Goodness

Active Media has released its latest line of SSDs which are compatible with Windows 7 – Sabertooth S4 SATA Mini PCIe. These SSDs is capable of  up to 130/MB/sec sequential read speeds.

Compatible with Eee PC 900, 900A, 901 and 1000 models, these SSDs are available in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB capacities.

When tested on an Eee PC 1000 running on Windows XP, the Sabertooth S4 registered over 120MB/sec read speeds. This is nearly four times faster than the default SSD in the Eee PC 1000.

In addition, the Sabertooth S4 SSDs feature ECC which is a wear leveling and  bad bit management features that are built in and provides lasting endurance with high performance and reliability over the lifetime of the SSDs.

The Sabertooth S4 SSD with model number N16G-SATA-S4, N32G-SATA-S4, N64G-SATA are available now at Amazon for $59.95, $99.95 and $169.95 respectively. If you get it during the promo period, you are entitled to a 20% discount.

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Active Media Brings Windows 7 Compatible SSDs

It’s actually a pretty basic looking netbook made by a Chinese company called Colorful. It has a 1024×600 10-inch display, 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 160GB hard drive and up to 2GB of RAM. It also boasts a built-in accelerometer–yes, the same one that helped make Apple’s iPod touch and iPhone famous–that enables auto-rotation of the display when the netbook is held in portrait mode and automatic shutdown when the netbook is detected to be in freefall. Pretty nifty, right? Right. It’s probably going to be a bit hard to get one of these outside of China, though.

Cloned in China via Liliputing

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Colorful S101 NewYork netbook isn’t from New York, isn’t from Asus, and isn’t colorful

A couple of weeks ago we reported on the upcoming Asus Eee Box EB1501. Well, the official manual for this powerful nettop from Asus is now up at the Asus global site. And you can pre-order the Eee Box EB1501 at Amazon UK as well. Yes, right now.

The Eee Box EB1501 User Manual is available in several languages including Chinese, English, Dutch, Finish, French, German, Italian, Hungarian, Spanish and Thai. So if you are anywhere in those countries, expect the EB1501 to hit the local market soon.

Better yet, order your EB1501 unit now at Amazon and prepare to spend around £381.10.

With that price, you’d get a nettop with dual core 1.6GHz Atom 330 CPU, NVIDIA IO graphics, slot loading DVD burner plus some other goodies.

via Liliputing

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Eee Box EB1501 Manual, Pre-Order Page Available Now

The reason? Well, the original version of the Eee Keyboard didn’t make it through some wireless testing regulation.

The good news is – once it comes out in 2010, perhaps during CES 2010 we might be looking at a better Eee Keyboard. That’s the bottom line of it all. What’s the point of rushing a gadget when you know that it will just conk out on users easily?

So, let’s all start looking forward to 2010 then.

via I4U

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Eee Keyboard Won’t Be Available Until 2010

Just when does Asus actually plans to release its innovative Eee Keyboard. It was supposed to come out last month right? or this month? But anyway, it looks like the Eee Keyboard’s market debut is delayed anew as Asus has just redesigned it a bit.

Register Hardware was able to get a hands-on the redesigned keyboard and guess what? What use to be a resistive 5-inch touchscreen display is now replaced with a capacitive panel. This is similar to what the iPhone and other touch-screen handsets apparently use and which Asus’ product design head Ken Wang said has a better touch responsiveness.

In addition, the  Eee Keyboard now also supports gesture control similar to the recently released Apple Magic Mouse. It can launch a web browser just by swiping to fingers on its screen. Sleek!

Asus also plans to release both non-metallic and metallic versions of the Eee Keyboard. When? That remains to be answered.

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Asus Redesigns its Eee Keyboard

We all know what it means when an upcoming product starts showing up on it’s mother company’s global site, right? It means that product is now being prepared for international launch. Well, that seems to be the case for the new Eee PC 1001HA which we covered recently.

The Eee PC 1001HA is now appearing on the Asus global site. This new member of the Eee PC Seashell family looks like a toned down version of the Eee PC 1005HA. It’s features and specs speak well of what this new netbook can bring when it comes out.

• 10.1-inch 1024×600 display
• 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU
• 1GB of RAM
• 160GB HDD
• Wi-Fi 802.1 b/g/n
• 0.3MP webcam
• 3 USB ports
• Windows XP or Linux OS
• 3 cell/6 cell battery.

No words on pricing and release date yet.

Here are some more photos:

via Eee PC IT

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Eee PC 1001HA Spotted on Asus Global Site